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Are PC games that are made for XP able to run on Vista?

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Timmy 6 #
Colorado Springs, CO, US | 3 months ago (3 minutes after post)

i have vista too. it sucks.
but what you have to do is go to the website of the game, and see if they dont have a patch available for download.

if not, just try and right click on the icon or whatever, and run as administrator.

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knightspide 2 #
An Unknown Location | 3 months ago (3 minutes after post)

Some games do work properly on Vista. Others don’t. Were you thinking of any particular game?

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Rowass, Gone 533 #
An Undisclosed Location | 3 months ago (5 minutes after post)

knightspide wrote:
Some games do work properly on Vista. Others don’t. Were you thinking of any particular game?

Stronghold legends but I was mostly just wondering.

Timmy wrote:
i have vista too. it sucks.
but what you have to do is go to the website of the game, and see if they dont have a patch available for download.

if not, just try and right click on the icon or whatever, and run as administrator.

I am getting vista now. And it cannot not suck more than Mac. You can’t play any games on mac.

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Anthrax 117 #
Tv�royri, 00, FO | 3 months ago (17 minutes after post)

Well, if you’re one of the lucky ones, Vista might run fairly good on your computer. I never got my wireless working on Vista… and Fable refused to run more than a couple of minutes at the time, which is ironic, since it’s a Microsoft game.

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Commander Ikari 148 #
An Undisclosed Location | 3 months ago (19 minutes after post)

They should. Course Vista mucks everything else up, might do the same to the games

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Anthrax 117 #
Tv�royri, 00, FO | 3 months ago (19 minutes after post)

Oh I forgot to ask. What are the technical specifications for your computer?

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Anthrax 117 #
Tv�royri, 00, FO | 3 months ago (23 minutes after post)

As far as I’m concerned, Vista is a beta product. It doesn’t do what it’s supposed to, and it doesn’t do what it’s advertised to do.

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Rowass, Gone 533 #
An Undisclosed Location | 3 months ago (27 minutes after post)

Anthrax wrote:
Oh I forgot to ask. What are the technical specifications for your computer?

I haven’t actually got it yet but here they are. It is an alienware.

[1] Area-51® m15x

Design & Display: Silver Ripley Design
Display: 15.4″ WideUXGA 1920 x 1200 LCD (1200p)
System Lighting: Alienware® AlienFX® System Lighting - Blue
Video/Graphics Card: 512MB NVIDIA® GeForce® 8700M GT
Processor: Intel® Core™ 2 Duo T9300 2.5GHz (6MB Cache 800MHz FSB)
Operating System (Office software not included): Windows Vista® Home Premium with Service Pack 1
Notebook Tuners and Remotes: Without Media Center Remote Control or TV Tuner
Memory: 2GB Dual Channel DDR2 SO-DIMM at 667MHz – 2 x 1024MB
Turbo Cache Memory: Intel® Turbo Memory (1GB) – Accelerate Data Transfer Speed
Available on Windows Vista Only!
System Drive: 200GB 7,200RPM (16MB Cache) w/ Free Fall Protection
Optical Drives : 8x Dual Layer Burner (DVD±RW, CD-RW)
Wireless: Internal Intel® Wireless 4965 a/b/g/Draft-N Mini-Card
Sound Card : Internal High-Definition Audio with surround sound
Keyboard Options: AlienFX® Illuminated Keyboard – Exclusive Design
Warranty: 3-Year AlienCare Toll-Free 24/7 Phone Support w/ Onsite Service
Security Software: McAfee® VirusScan Plus – 36-Month Subscription Factory Installed!
Microsoft Office Suites: Microsoft® Office Home and Student 2007 – Factory Installed!
Includes Word, Excel and One Note!

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Anthrax 117 #
Tv�royri, 00, FO | 3 months ago (35 minutes after post)

Ah ok, so it comes pre-installed with Service Pack 1. That’s good, because that means they’ve most likely fixed the bugs sp1 has had on many systems. For me, sp1 killed my dvd burner… I didn’t have time, patience or will to wait for Microsoft to fix that, so I downgraded to XP myself. Later I switched to Linux, but that’s another story.

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Rowass, Gone 533 #
An Undisclosed Location | 3 months ago (36 minutes after post)

So I should be fine then. Good. Thanks.

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Anthrax 117 #
Tv�royri, 00, FO | 3 months ago (39 minutes after post)

Well, make sure it says “Vista” in requirements before going out and buying any new games. I’m not gonna guarantee that Vista is backwards compatible.

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Rowass, Gone 533 #
An Undisclosed Location | 3 months ago (1 hour, 13 minutes after post)

Anthrax wrote:
Well, make sure it says “Vista” in requirements before going out and buying any new games. I’m not gonna guarantee that Vista is backwards compatible.

Ok I will thanks man.

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cole_wrinkle 3 #
An Unknown Location | 3 months ago (1 day, 6 hours after post)

i have had one game work on vista i wont use it any time soon it sucks but i was bored and it was the only thing to do so i try to play star craft and it work but other then that i dont know

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azn_baybii_mali #
An Unknown Location | 2 months ago (1 month after post)

tried running it in Windows XP format? Usually works for me.

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